As expected, Barnett and Tame justifiably crushed their competition like King Kong, walking away with more pointy glass trophies than the cinematic monster monkey could carry in both hands.

First up, Melbourne bard Barnett scooped an incredible 4 awards from 8 nominations, adding to her previously-announced ‘Best Cover Art’ gong by bagging the ARIAs for 2015’s ‘Breakthrough Artist’, ‘Best Female Artist’ and’Best Independent Release’ for Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit.

It follows her recent domination of triple j’s frothed over J Award for the same category, pretty much making the evidence of her greatness undeniable. Sorry, haters.

But it wasn’t quite a clean sweep for the singer – she was bested in the ‘Best Rock Album’ category (something rock fans will likely be relieved about!), with that accolade going to Tame Impala (DUHHHHH) who also took home the prize for ‘Best Group’, beating out rock legends AC/DC and mega-poppers 5 Seconds Of Summer and – of course – the big, fat, coveted ‘Album Of The Year’ gong for 2015’s incredible Currents.

A few other artists aside from Courtney Barnett and Tame Impala also won awards at the ARIAs. Vance Joy nabbed the ‘Best Male Artist’ gong, Rüfüs took out ‘Best Dance Release’ for You Were Right, a wheelchair-bound Seth Sentry sort of walked away with a ‘Best Urban Album’ award for Strange New Past, Jarryd James dominated the pop department with Do You Remember and Northlane swept the ‘Hard Rock/Heavy Metal’ category, winning for their new album Node.

Elsewhere, Shane Nicholson bagged the ARIA for ‘Best Country Album’, C.W. Stoneking for ‘Best Blues & Roots’, Oh Mercy for ‘Best Adult Contemporary’ and The Veronicas scored Best Video for You Ruin Me.

Best Australian Live Act went to 5SOS who used the platform to announce a 2016 Australian tour and, in non-Australian artist news, the award for ‘Best International Artist’ went to… One Direction. Sorry Tay.